Getting good letters on this one. If you haven’t read the original “Wokeness Comes To West Point” post, by all means do. Then read these letters.
Here’s the first, slightly edited to protect confidentiality:
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graduated from West Point in [date] and currently still serve. I was
dismayed, but honestly not very shocked, with the 40-page manifesto
fired at the Academy by the disgruntled former cadets. There has been a
gradual shift at West Point in recent years to become more progressive,
to include:
-In 2018, inviting Ta-Nehisi Coates to spend two days at the academy,
speaking to cadets about a variety of topics, with an emphasis on race.
This is the same Ta-Nehisi Coates who wrote in regards to the police
and firefighters who died on 9/11 “They were not human to me. Black,
white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature.”
It always surprises me to hear the number of people who think West Point or the military would be immune to the trends that shape the rest of our society. The US military is the most communist part of our government and every officer, NCO, and private is steeped in it from basic training to retirement. They are government employees, one and all, and their highest calling is "obey". Oh, and WEST Point has a whole bunch of statues and monuments.
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Thanks.
DeleteThe article and comments are well worth the read. I still think that the military, like all of our other institutions, is being converged by the same social justice warrior creed that has been produced and mandated by academic scoundrels, nere do well "journalists", and treasonous politicians.
ReplyDeleteInfuriating.
DeleteThis malignant cancer began when President Abraham Lincoln committed treason by invading Southern states which hadn't yet seceded (and were opposed to secession!), and then violating the Constitution by centralizing all powers in the federal government, thereby negating the sovereignty and local control of the several individual states.
ReplyDeleteThe cancerous malignancy continued when President Dwight David Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division "Screaming Eagles" (MY outfit in Viet Nam!) to invade Little Rock, Arkansas to force compliance with the Supreme Court ruling in the 1954 case of "Brown Versus Topeka, Kansas Board of Education".
And, thanks to the malignant cancer infecting the public schools, the mass media, and the churches (and yes, even my own chosen faith, The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints!), we now have generations of socially conditioned and ideologically indoctrinated blood-thirsty fanatics running amok, with no fear of retribution from the impotent law.
This eerily similar to the 1965 movie, "DOCTOR ZHIVAGO", and the 2008 documentary, "THE SOVIET STORY".
Will the knowledge of our republic and its founding even survive?
Will the heritage of white folk be trashed and forever extinguished?
What of Christianity and its eternal tenets?
And so, the malignancy continues, unchecked.
Thanks and we shall see. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2020/07/comment-on-more-on-wokeness-at-west.html
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